Perhaps the most important news is that we have finally updated our website and have reopened our online store. When first designed, our vision for the PalmGuitar® was to have an adequate supply of finished instruments available so that when customers ordered them, they would show up the very next day by Federal Express. The demand for the PalmGuitar® has been greater than anticipated, so there is often a waiting list. For that reason, we chose to keep the store closed, and only sold instruments to those that inquired through our eMail links. Though we still aren’t able to keep the supply ahead of the demand, we thought it was time to reopen the store. We will ship instruments to customers in the order in which they are received. We’ll also notify you well in advance when you instrument is about to ship, and you’ll have an opportunity to accept or decline the purchase. No charges will apply to your credit card until your order is confirmed and the instrument is ready for shipment. We wish to express our thanks to all of you that have visited the site, over and over, just waiting for the store to open. We hope it will have been worth the wait!

Photos from the 2003 NAMM show held in Anaheim, California in January 2003 show a busy booth. At the show we had hundreds of visitors, each able to play a PalmGuitar®, We featured a prototype of the PalmGuitar® Basic, two PalmGuitar® Standards, and one example of the PalmGuitar® Custom. The Custom 4 string bass, drew lots of attention. Built on the PalmGuitar® platform, the bass used a simple humbucker pickup, normal bass guitar strings, an ABM bridge and compact bass tuners. Each of the instruments was hooked up to Korg® Pandora® processor with headphones.

Though we don’t have photographs of all of our customers, we do have a few of some of the new customers we gained at Winter NAMM. Kevin Eubanks was kind enough to send us these shots of his visit to our booth, and also holding his PalmGuitar®.

For a brief moment in between greeting dozens of fans, Joe Satriani dropped by the booth to pick up a PalmGuitar® for his son ZZ, and was kind enough to pose for a photo with us. Joe started to play the guitar at the age of 14, and among his vast range of professional accomplishments is that of a gifted guitar teacher. We're incredibly proud to have heard ZZ Satriani jam on a PalmGuitar® in his formative years. Stay tuned for more ZZ ...

One of our favorite customers is "Karaoke Karl" Detken, an executive for Pioneer Audio. So far, Karl has logged close to 350,000 miles with his PalmGuitar®. Many of you have asked, “Can you actually play a PalmGuitar on an airplane?” Karl suggests, “if you play right handed, choose seat A … the left window.”  Though you can't use any wireless gear in flight, normal headphone amps with an instrument cord are fine.